Manifolding-bill-pad holder.



PATENTED NOV. 5, 1907.

P. A. MGGASKEY.

MANIFOLDING BILL PAD HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED PEB.13,1907- ATTORNEY.

WASHINGTON. D. c

UNITED STATE PATENT OFFICE.

PERRY A. MCOASKEY, OF ALLIANCE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE MCOASKEY REGISTER COMPANY, OF ALLIANCE, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

MANIFOLDING-BILL-PAD HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 5, 1907.

Application filed February 13, 1907- Serial No. 357.180.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PERRY A. McOAsKEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Alliance, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Manifolding-Bill-Pad Holders; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to credit accounting systems in general and has reference to pads or books of blank forms on which to make bills of sale in triplicate, the invention having reference particularly to holders for the pads.

The object of the invention is to provide improved triplicate-bill pad holders adapted to be produced at the minimum cost so as to be economical as necessary appliances of the credit system, a further object of the invention being to provide an improved holder adapted to be used especially in connection with triplicate-bill pads, a still further object being to provide a pad holder that will be convenient in use and attractive in appearance.

With the above-mentioned and minor objects in view, the invention consists in the specific improvements in the construction of the pad holder as hereinafter particularly described and referred to in the appended claims:

Referring to the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of the triplicating bill pads arranged in the improved holder;- Fig. 2, a fragmentary perspective view showing parts of the pad holder; Fig. 3, a longi tudinal sectional View through the pad and the holder illustrating a remnant of a pad and a set of the bill blanks drawn apart so as to show the manner in which they are folded in the pad; Fig. 4, a perspective view of a part of the folding hinge of the tablet which serves as a cover of the pad holder; and Fig. 5, a perspective view of a companion part of the folding hinge.

The improved pad holder is well adapted to be made of sheet aluminium which will not require any covering or surface coatings in the finishing of the article. A holder comprises a flat back plate A that is oblong in plan and rectangular, one end of the plate being turned up at right angles to form a head piece B, the extremity being further turned over at right angles thereto to form a clamp-bar G parallel to the face of the plate A. The head piece B is relatively short, the

space between the plate A and the clamp-bar 0 being adapted to receive and hold the bound stubs of the pad, there being one-third only as many stubs as there are leaves or bill blanks in a triplicating pad. The opposite end of the plate'A has portions thereof at opposite corners turned over and forming clipsD and D the opposite side thereof.

to assist in holding the pad in the holder, and between the clips the plate A is provided with two hinge parts E and E that are provided with a hinge rod F all forming parts of a folding hinge, there being a relatively narrow hinge member G having a hinge part H connected to the rod F and having also a hinge part H at A hinge member I has two hinge parts .I and 3" that are provided with a hinge rod K that is connected to the hinge part II, the member I having ahinge part L at the opposite side thereof. The pad holder is provided with a tablet M that has two hinge parts N and N provided with a hinge rod O that is connected to the hinge part L. The tablet M is designed particularly to be used as a stop to be placed under a set of the bill blanks when being written upon to prevent the writing from being transferred to other blanks beneath, and one of the purposes of the folding hinge is to enable ,the tablet M to be fitted properly with respect to the bill forms either on a full pad or when the pad is partly or nearly exhausted. Another purpose of the folding hinge is to enable the tab let M to lie flat on the bill forms when comparatively few forms remain in the pad, all of which will be appreciated by the user.

A pad or book of bill forms P, such as the improved holder is designed to hold, comprises a suitable number of sets of forms of three each, each set being on a single sheet of paper, all bound together on a back board P. Each sheet has a stub Q, an original bill form It, a triplicate form S joined at a weakened line S -to the form R, and a duplicate form T joined at a weakened line T to the form S. The back of blank R has carbon U and the back of blank T has carbon V thereon, the back of blank S having an advertisement W thereon. In the pad the foot end X of blank T lies at the line S between the other two blanks.

In the use of the holder, the bound head of the pad will be held by the clamp-bar O, the foot end of the board P extending under the clips D D Ordinarily the tablet M will lie on the top of the pad as a cover therefor, and the tablet will be placed under a set of three bill blanks before making up a bill of sale in triplicate on the blanks. The pad body, as will be seen, is much higher when new than the stub end of the pad, and while the folding hinge of the tablet M permits the tablet to cover a relatively thick pad, it also permits thetablet to lie flat on pads of less thickness, so that not only folded-leaf pads but those having stubs on all of the bill blanks may be accommodated in the improved holder.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. A bill pad holden comprising an obl0ngrecta11gnlar plate with an upturned head piece on a shorter side thereof and a clamp-bar on the head piece to hold the head end of a pad, said plate havinga hinge part formed on the opposite side thereof, a hinge member connected to the hinge part of the plate, a second hinge member connected to the first-mentioned hinge member and extending farther from said plate than said upturned head piece extends from the plate, and an oblong-rectangular tablet having a narrower side thereof connected to said second hinge member.

2. A bill pad holder comprising an oblong-rectangular plate with an upturned head piece on a shorter side thereof, and a clamp-bar on the head piece, the plate having, two clips formed on corner portions of the opposite side thereof and also a hinge part between the two clips, a hinge member connected to the hinge part of the plate, a relatively wider hinge member connected to the other hinge member, and an oblong-rectangular tablet having a 15 narrower side thereof connected to the wider hinge member. In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses, on the 8th day of February, 1907.

PERRY A. MCCASKEY.

Witnesses EDWIN W. DIEHL, Con'rnn E. RAMSEY. 

